no one knows better than me

Just as Zhuang Qingliu finished thinking, another messenger talisman floated out of his arms, and after being ignited in mid-air, Mei Hualan's voice came out from inside a little erratically: "What did you suddenly think?"

Zhuang Qingliu said in his heart: "I'm thinking that it would be better when the talisman can develop a video function. It can be used to guide the office remotely, fight evil and help chaos, and the most important thing is to be able to see the face. How suitable."

Then he said: "It's nothing, I'll talk about it when you come back, don't worry, I won't waste the talisman."

There seemed to be some rustling voices on the side of Meihualan, and it sounded like she was not idle, so she quickly agreed: "Okay."

Zhuang Qingliu seemed to want to say something, but hesitated for a moment, and simply raised his hand to put away the talisman without saying anything.Just looking at the swaying lotus on the lake, after looking at it from near to far for a while, hovering over the bow of the awning boat, stretched out his hand and snapped his fingers.

The lotus flowers all over the lake suddenly surged in the night, and soon surrounded them layer by layer, embracing Zhuang Qingliu's awning boat in the center.

After Zhuang Qingliu roughly tried a few things, he got a little idea of ​​the connection with these lotus flowers in his heart, and then touched a small neon-colored bud, letting it grow up instantly, bloom and wither, and finally formed a lotus pod for himself come out.

"what are you doing?"

A voice suddenly came from the shore, and Mei Siji approached in shock from a distance, and looked around: "Why are these lotus flowers surrounding you again, you..."

Zhuang Qingliu peeled the sweet lotus seeds and chewed them full of fragrance, then casually turned her head to look at Mei Siji: "It's not that they are surrounding me, it's that I'm holding the first lotus union conference."

Mei Siji: "???"

Zhuang Qingliu waved his hand away, generously distributed the remaining half of the lotus pod to her, then looked back, waved his hand and dismissed the veteran representatives of the Lianhe Kingdom, announcing the successful conclusion of the first conference.

The representatives were very happy, and swam away one after another. The scene was once weird and unspeakable.

Mei Siji lowered her head and looked at half of the lotus pod for a long while, but she didn't dare to eat it, so she held her hands and raised her head and said, "I knew you came here again for a night swim, so go back quickly, a water tank has been placed for you by the bedside."

Zhuang Qingliu didn't move, and dangled on the bow of the boat with her chin in her hand: "But what if I can't sleep right now? Is there anything fun in your house at night?"

Mei Siji rolled her eyelids angrily: "Our house is not a market town, there will be a curfew in the middle of the night, and birds are not allowed to run around."

"Is that so?" Zhuang Qingliu blinked in disappointment, then suddenly raised his finger, and the spirit sword on Mei Siji's waist flew straight at her.

Zhuang Qingliu lightly jumped onto the Spirit Sword from the bow of the boat: "Then I'll go and see those big geese, do they like little pink sacks?"

"Wait... what are you doing?!" Mei Siji was shocked, and quickly ran after her, "That's my sword! No, you can't control the sky in the Immortal Mansion... What are you doing!"

She squeezed several recalled decisions one after another, not only did the spirit sword not respond, it even flickered in the night and flew away farther and farther away.

……

Zhuang Qing used Mei Siji's spirit sword to fly randomly in the air for a while, overlooking the Siguniang Mountain of Mei's family from a high place, Meiling where guests are treated, the front mountain where disciples live in practice, Meiyu surrounded by clear water, and Various fairy lofts.

After calmly testing the barriers of the Mei Family Immortal Mansion, she wandered back inwardly, randomly landed on a high grassy slope within the Meihualan Meiyuan, and began to walk back slowly.

The night was quiet, and the entire Mei Family Immortal Mansion seemed to have a curfew, and even the shadowy geese in the distance did not make a sound.

Zhuang Qingliu didn't take a few steps, and suddenly found that there seemed to be something strange mixed in with the group of big geese in front of him.

She stopped throwing the sword, stood still, and took a closer look, it turned out to be a... It seemed to be a crane with gorgeous and thick feathers, mixed in a group of big geese, about the same size, in the moonlight night, You can clearly see a handful of milky white, slightly curly fluff on the top of the head.

Zhuang Qingliu felt something familiar, but didn't remember it for a while, and the red crane seemed to be looking at her curiously.

After watching from a distance for a while, Zhuang Qingliu was about to approach, but suddenly heard someone shout behind her: "Senior Zhuang."

Senior Zhuang turned his head when he heard the sound, and Mei Xiaohan, who hadn't seen him for several days, was holding something in his arms, and walked over with wandering eyes, as if he was passing by, so he came to say hello: "I heard Si Ji said that you are asleep, Why are you here in the middle of the night?"

Zhuang Qingliu looked into her arms: "Uh... I just woke up and came out for a walk, what are you?"

"In the recent troubled season, the mountain spirits on Sigui Cliff are very troublesome. They haven't been dealt with yet, and the seven cities in the south are not peaceful. It seems that someone drove a group of water ghosts over. The suzerain was anxious to deal with them overnight."

Mei Xiaohan was holding a lot of scrolls that needed to be discussed and distributed, and his face was very haggard: "I heard that many people who have had old enemies with you are trying to block you recently, you should be careful, it is best not to come out alone outside the government."

Zhuang Qingliu couldn't help being curious, and temporarily distributed a batch of scrolls for her and carried them over: "Do you also know about such trivial things?"

"Thank you." Mei Xiaohan finally freed his chin and said, "I heard that Palace Master Zhu was in a hurry a few days ago, but he didn't block you at the foot of Pei's Lingshan, and then changed hands and surrounded you instead. The people beat me up, and I didn't know about it until there was an uproar."

Zhuang Qingliu: "..." Zhu Heng is a real dog, right?

"Why did she not stop me from beating others?"

"Because those people are too conspicuous together, let you be alert in advance." Mei Xiaohan said, "Don't you know, I wish the palace master blocked you, which is equivalent to—"with her here, cut you into several pieces Duan’s affairs will never be the turn of others’.”

Zhuang Qingliu thought for a while, but she was a little happy: "In that case, shouldn't I just concentrate on dealing with her alone in the future?"

……

Mei Xiaohan seemed to be stupefied in silence for a moment, then raised her eyelids in a daze and said, "Senior Zhuang, last time you were able to deal with her easily under the tomb of Pei's family, it was because she dealt with Zhenshan Pinghai successively in the past two months. What happened, she was seriously injured... She was actually very strong, very strong."

Zhuang Qingliu's heart moved slightly: "Mei Pan compares with her?"

Mei Xiaohan's eyes were still open, but his mind seemed to have fallen asleep, holding a pile of scrolls and thinking for a long time: "I wish the palace master is the person by your side. When she was very strong, Hualan was not born yet. But Huayuan has been around for the past few years... I can't say what her cultivation level is now, anyway, you better be careful."

"Okay." Zhuang Qingliu knew what was in her words, thought for a moment, didn't ask any more questions, nodded and said, "There is one more thing, the matter of the Pei family should have a result, right? How are those people?"

"Sovereign Pei's natal lamp has been extinguished, and young Sect Master Pei has been imprisoned for the time being. He probably won't be allowed to die directly, but he will be exiled to the place where the Pei family suppresses evil spirits in the future. Let him guard him for life."

Zhuang Qingliu thought about it, but he couldn't tell if the result was good or bad for someone like Pei Xuan.

"As for the more than 1000 people, they were all rescued. The Pei family has their own method of interrogation. First, we must find out what they have done all these years, and then rescue and compensate them separately. There must be innocent people and accidental deaths among them. human life."

Zhuang Qingliu: "No."

Mei Xiaohan said: "Fortunately, you left early and didn't ask any more questions. It's very difficult to follow up with the Pei family."

"There is no way to talk about this matter. I can't clean up the matter of the Pei family unless it is revealed. If it is revealed, the Pei family will be completely offended by me from then on. No matter what they look like, they will definitely not be happy in their hearts that the family's scandal will be dealt with openly. tore out."

Zhuang Qingliu sighed: "And after seeing this incident, the Shangzi Pei family will gradually decline, and those who are interested don't know how to think about it."

"That's what you said." Mei Xiaohan glanced at the sky and said, "Anyway, take some time to come to my yard tomorrow, and let Si Ji bring you over. Something happened to me."

Zhuang Qingliu: "What?"

"It spoke."

After Mei Xiaohan finished speaking, he hugged the scroll back and drifted away like a wandering spirit in a hurry.

A painting that speaks?

Zhuang Qingliu watched her sleepy headed back walk towards the Zong Pavilion where she was working, and after thinking for a long time, she looked away, and found that the big goose and the crane mixed in had disappeared, and she must have gone to another place .

After searching casually, she couldn't find it, so she simply went back to Meiyuan first. Mei Siji waited for the door from a distance, and when Zhuang Qingliu approached, she seemed so angry that she snatched back her sword without saying a word. He staggered her with a sound, and then walked away.

Although this girl likes to blow up her hair every day, she is actually very easy to coax. I guess she will steal another orange from her tomorrow and peel it for her. Zhuang Qingliu blinked, but didn't keep her, and wandered around the house by herself.

The small casserole on the bedside of the plum blossoms was still there, so she simply cooked porridge for herself, then took the grape seedlings to the yard, planed the wet and soft ground under the bright moonlight, and planted them in the northeast of the yard. horn.

After a while, Zhuang Qingliu turned to the middle of the yard and observed the budding peach trees when he left for a while. He felt that the peach blossoms were about to bloom, and he didn't know if the plum blossoms would come back before they bloomed.

Time passed silently, and wandered around in a mess for a while, until the moon was in the sky, Zhuang Qingliu tossed himself out of drowsiness again, and turned back to prepare to sleep.

It's just that when she lifted the quilt, she subconsciously took two steps back, her gaze dropped: "...What the hell is this?"

Someone put a bunch of white and fat bugs on her bed?

Zhuang Qingliu approached strangely, bowed his head and poked it twice with his fingertips. Although the worms were white and fat, they were all curled up into a ball. They should have passed away, and they looked very clean, much like artificially raised ones. , could it be...Mei Siji?

Unexpectedly, this girl had inherited the narrow-mindedness passed down from her ancestors. Zhuang Qingliu raised her eyebrows, swept her hand indifferently, wrapped the bug in a handkerchief, and fell asleep.

It's just that after waking up the next day, I opened the window... another pile.

What's the situation?Zhuang Qingliu looked down for a while in surprise, then unfolded the handkerchief, and wrapped a bunch of round fat bugs again.

"Did you send this to me?" Two hours later, she asked Mei Siji who came to take her to Mei Xiaohan's courtyard.

Mei Siji's eyes started to burst when she saw her, and she pushed the door loudly: "Is there something wrong with me?"

Okay... Then maybe it's those big geese on the grass?That storky crane?It's like raising a cat, and the cat owner suddenly sent you mice and snakes one day consciously and lovingly.

Zhuang Qingliu went out after him, stuffed the worm back into his sleeve, thinking about the crane, and turned to ask Mei Siji by the way.

Mei Siji turned a corner, walked downhill, and hummed casually: "Sigui likes it, it's a bird specially raised by Lord Duanzhu for her to play with."

"Hmm." Zhuang Qingliu replied vaguely, "So the insects are not eaten by birds, right?"

Mei Siji choked at her with anger at every last sound: "What would a bird eat if it didn't eat a worm?"

Zhuang Qingliu looked at her side face, didn't say anything, but couldn't help but start to wonder in his heart - a person like Mei Hualan would keep a little girl by his side all the time, and even spoiled her so much that he raised geese The point of the bird... what is the relationship?

Mei Siji's eyes flickered in confusion, and she stared at her seriously: "Don't make random guesses."

"You don't know, do you?" Zhuang Qingliu was even more suspicious, looking at her expression, "Then what about Siguiren you said? Why didn't you see her today?"

Mei Siji snorted through her nose: "Sigui has always been by Duanzhu-jun's side. I haven't seen her twice a year. How can you see her all at once?"

"??" Zhuang Qingliu was very inexplicably surprised, "Since she has been with Duan Zhujun all the time, why can't you see each other twice a year?"

"Because Mr. Duanzhu is outside most of the time."

Mei Siji gave her a strange look again: "Don't you know? If she didn't have anything very special in the past, she basically only came back twice a year, once when the peach blossoms bloomed, and once when the lotus blossoms in the backyard bloomed. Ten days, sometimes even less than ten days, when the flowers fall, they leave."

Zhuang Qingliu stopped suddenly: "Only come back twice? Stay for 20 days? Then where is she the rest of the time?"

"I don't know!" Mei Siji glared at her impatiently, "In short, it's just traveling around outside, helping the chaos and eliminating troubles. Why do you want to know her specific whereabouts?!"

Zhuang Qingliu only felt that the girl was very irritable today, so she didn't ask any questions, and just peeled an orange for her slowly.By the way, I thought to myself, Meihualan is not in the Immortal Mansion all year round, and these junior disciples can't even meet each other a few times, no wonder it is so strange to be led by her to practice once.

He only goes home twice a year, yet he is so admired by the juniors?

Mei Siji glanced at her naturally: "Although she is often away, she will always be there when she is summoned. There is nothing she can't solve, no matter how difficult it is."

"Well." Zhuang Qingliu raised his hand and touched his chin, thinking that hard power is the primary productive force, and children belong to Mu Qiang.

"Alright, we're at Master Yan's courtyard, go in by yourself."

After Mei Siji brought her to the place, she turned around and left, looking angry, but she couldn't stop eating the oranges in her hand.

Zhuang Qingliu couldn't help but looked away from her back. Before he started to look at the yard in front of him, he saw a pigeon standing on the wall, tilting his head and winking at her.

Pigeon: "Cuckoo, cluck, cluck."

"?" Zhuang Qingliu immediately turned it ugly, "No, no, you can't coo me, do you know how far I have traveled?"

The pigeon suddenly flew up comically, opened the door for her from behind, then jumped onto the bamboo pole under the porch, and fell silent.

This is probably a pigeon that can only watch the door and entertain guests. Zhuang Qingliu looked at it with interest, pushed the door open with his hand and entered the yard... Then, he found that there was a flock of birds covering the sky and covering the sky, all kinds of birds. Variety, standing full of roof yards and wall eaves, even where there is no place to set foot.

It turns out that Mei Xiaohan... is an expert bird breeder.

After admiring a bird zoo strangely for free, Zhuang Qingliu walked through the courtyard cautiously with his feet on the ground, passed by the pigeons before entering the door, then backed up, took out a worm from his pocket, and asked inquiringly : "You sent it?"

The pigeon tilted its head, flapped its wings and flew up, grabbed it from her palm and ate it.

Zhuang Qingliu looked at it a few more times, and thought: Well, probably not.

How can there be any reason to eat it after sending it out?

She raised her hand and knocked on the door, Mei Xiaohan's voice came out quickly: "Please come in."

Zhuang Qingliu walked in, took a general look around, and felt that the Mei family had an ancestral monotonous aesthetic. Mei Xiaohan's room was messy, and most of the layouts were exactly the same as Meihualan.

The question is... what about people?

Zhuang Qingliu went to the innermost place but found no one, so he couldn't help but turned around and walked out again. After looking around... walked to the long table next to him, and dug Mei Xiaohan out from the mountain of scrolls.

Mei Xiao felt as cold as gossamer, got up and picked up a pen: "Oh, it's okay, Young Master Zhuang, I can still write."

"...I didn't ask you to write?" Zhuang Qingliu looked around, and the host and guest poured her a glass of water upside down, staring at the dark circles on her eyes, "No... you should rest for a while Bar."

Mei Xiaohan dried up the water in one breath, and lived for five minutes: "One more cup."

"Okay." Zhuang Qingliu handed her the warm teapot directly.

So Mei Xiaohan emptied the teapot again, Zhuang Qingliu asked: "Do you want another pot?"

"No, thank you, that's enough." Mei Xiaohan was like a fish, miraculously alive on the spot after drinking the cow, and then took a precise draw from the pile of scrolls in front of him, and straight to the point handed Zhuang Qingliu a simple picture scroll, " This is the fairy in the painting, I have been very busy in the past two days, so I won’t go into details, Senior Zhuang should take it home and unfold it for myself.”

Zhuang Qingliu took it, and looked down at her head that disappeared into the ocean of scrolls again: "Uh... I still have something to ask."

Mei Xiaohan's hands were right, as if he was calculating something, he pulled his head out, raised his head calmly and said, "Are you asking?"

Zhuang Qingliu said: "I want to ask you, do you know a kind of... summoning talisman?"

Mei Xiaohan moved quickly like a snake in his hands, and his voice was very calm and sure: "Master Zhuang, there is no such talisman."

Zhuang Qingliu didn't seem to be very surprised. After a moment's pause, he described in detail: "Then if you say a password, you can summon someone to come to you?"

"The kind that comes on call?"

Zhuang Qingliu: "Yes."

"That's not a talisman, it should be a kind of contract, a contract." Mei Xiaohan raised his head and said with a little deep meaning, "Only two people who form a bond with each other can summon each other like this."

Zhuang Qingliu's thick eyelashes flickered lightly, as if she still wanted to ask something, but after traversing the tip of her tongue for a moment, she finally simply nodded: "Okay, I see."

Before she took the Immortal in Painting to say goodbye and turned around, she paid special attention to it—Mei Xiaohan's bed was a normal size, more than half smaller than the big bed in Meihualan.In other words, that kind of big bed is not the standard configuration of the Mei family.

"Uh... You should pay attention to your body and don't try too hard." Zhuang Qingliu turned her head last before leaving the door.

Mei Xiaohan couldn't even see below the shoulders this time: "Okay, I will, thank you Senior Zhuang for your concern."

"..." Zhuang Qingliu looked up at the sky, said goodbye to Hua Ge, and left with the fairy in the painting.

As she walked along the way, she turned the picture scroll horizontally and looked at it. She pinched the silk thread with her fingers and thought about it again. She felt that it would be better to go back and open it again, or wait for Meihualan to come back.

Just thinking about turning a corner of the cliff, a child's voice suddenly called out: "Auntie."

"aunt?"

Zhuang Qingliu's footsteps stopped abruptly, and he immediately looked up. This is a little boy who looks only five or six years old. He is wearing clothes with the Mei family's nine-petal Mei family pattern. His eyebrows and eyes are cute and delicate, and he is looking up Zhuang Qingliu's direction.

Zhuang Qingliu felt suspicious, looked down at his fair face carefully, and couldn't help saying to himself: "What kind of family tree is this? Didn't my family be destroyed by me, and I'm the only one left?"

At this time, a familiar voice suddenly appeared behind her: "Are you going to be his aunt?"

plum bank!

Zhuang Qingliu turned her head suddenly, her brows beaming with joy: "You're back?! His aunt was calling you?"

"It's my brother's Si Ti." There seemed to be a little smile in Mei Hualan's eyes, she approached Zhuang Qingliu with a long knife in her hand, and asked again, "Do you want to be her aunt?"

"..." Zhuang Qingliu didn't hear what she was saying cryptically at all, but just looked at the child in front of him in shock.

Meihuazhou actually has a son? !He, an unmarried person, has a son?Is it the fashion here to have children out of wedlock?

——Then May Sigui?

Mei Hualan took a quick look at her face, turned to the front naturally, and lowered her eyes and called out: "Si Ti, come here."

Mei Siti bowed to her sternly: "No, aunt, I'm going to the study."

After he finished speaking, he walked away alone, and no one followed behind him.

Mei Hualan also seemed to be used to it, and quickly looked away, raised her hand slightly, and handed the things in her hand to Zhuang Qingliu.

"Knife?" After Zhuang Qingliu looked at her, she temporarily put aside the matter of Mei Sigui, and reached out to take it. She liked it a little in her eyes. She didn't feel comfortable with a sword, and she should be more suitable for using a knife. "You are doing this for these days. ? Specially fetched for me?”

Mei Hualan gave a soft "hmm" and looked into her eyes: "It was originally yours."

Zhuang Qingliu understood what she meant in an instant, paused when she drew the knife, looked up at her, and then quickly fell on the knife in her hand - I don't know if it was an illusion, although the knife is not like a floating lamp As soon as he flew up, he gave her a whirlwind kiss on the face, but Zhuang Qingliu really felt an indescribable feeling and resonance in his heart.

After a short pause, she gently pulled it out, and the moon-white blade was cut like a clear spring, with two very special ancient characters inscribed on it: Chasing spirits.

In fact, she didn't know this kind of writing, but she could read it subconsciously - chasing spirits, chasing spirits.

This is her knife.

Zhuang Qingliu rubbed the two characters with his fingertips before continuing to pull out the entire saber body—it was a long saber with white light flowing, very slender, without any decoration, and the color of moonlight flowing all over its body. The blade even faintly reveals gentleness, and the front end is curved, resembling the smile on the corner of the master's mouth.

Her knife is very beautiful, with a beautiful curved edge, the moon is white and clear, without any decorations, it is not full of brilliant gold or precious stones.

Zhuang Qingliu didn't think of any saber techniques, and subconsciously compared Zuo Qinglong and right Baihu for a show.

Mei Hualan watched quietly for a while, then suddenly smiled, and stretched out her hand, "Give it to me."

As soon as she finished speaking, Zhuling flew to her palm very familiarly, and then Meihua swept her sleeves, sending Zhuang Qingliu a foot away, and he demonstrated a set of saber techniques to her in the open space in front of the cliff.

The daylight was just right, Zhuang Qingliu could only feel the lights and shadows flickering in front of his eyes, dazzled: "Wait, wait...Mr. Duanzhu! You dance so fast, are you afraid that I will learn it?"

Plum Blossom Lane: "..."

She approached without saying a word, put the knife back into Zhuang Qingliu's hand, and suddenly said: "Let's see clearly at the beginning, you learn it first, and I will teach you."

Zhuang Qingliu quickly lifted the tip of the knife, and Mei Hualan guided beside her: "No, the left foot should be behind."

After she finished speaking, Zhuang Qingliu staggered to the side because of her left foot.

Mei Hualan's eyes moved slightly, and she moved quickly from behind her: "Slow down."

"..."

Zhuang Qingliu believed her nonsense, first did this, then that...then fell on his back again, fell asleep in Mei Hualan's arms, and was forced to inhale Meixiang.

……

After several times, Zhuang Qingliu finally walked around the Meihualan: "Mei Pan, are you laughing?"

"I do not have."

Zhuang Qingliu squinted from the corner of her eyes, and suddenly slapped her sideways with a knife: "I clearly feel you..."

Before she could finish her sentence, Mei Hualan didn't escape the sweep, and she stumbled forward inexplicably.

Zhuang Qingliu subconsciously took both hands, and immediately turned her head around her and asked, "What's going on?! Are you injured?"

As she spoke, she subconsciously touched Mei Hualan's whole body quickly: "Where did the injury come from?! You had it in Pei's mansion or it was just to get this knife—"

"Shhh, it's nothing serious." Mei Hualan rested her chin on her shoulders for a moment, as if she just couldn't bear to hold onto Zhuang Qingliu's hand, "A little internal injury, soak in the medicine pond for a while and it will be fine."

Zhuang Qingliu didn't feel any trauma, but felt that her tone was not the same as usual, and her face looked very tired. After hearing the words, she immediately took her back to the mountain: "So where is the medicine pond? Which medicine Tan?"

Mei Hualan still had the strength to take her up, flew over the cliff tomb and the plum forest, and landed on the edge of a clear pool with mottled trees: "Here."

The back mountain is extremely quiet, only the sound of the breeze passing through the forest.

Zhuang Qingliu raised his hand, and quickly untied the skirt for her: "Okay, okay, then go in quickly."

Mei Hualan suddenly grabbed her wrist and said, "Together."